Lol, all you guys joined before me, but.... I joined the day I found out about private severs, will never forget that, a buddy said, we should play Wotlk again on a private server. ( my eye's got really big at this new discovery, from he said ) and I joined, and canceled my retail subscription in the same 5 min.

january 2010 and there was already neltharion and deathwing with 3k online each how did molten get so popular so fast?

competition disapearing.

there were other servers that were even godly scripted, but most of their admins fight for the "donation" money and most of them has been shut down since, others died from blizzard demands and some by having no population.